Georgia school shooting suspect, father, make first court appearances

(6 Sep 2024)
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Winder, Georgia - 6 September 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Judge Currie Mingledorff II, Barrow County Superior Court:
Judge: "Good morning sir are you Mr. Colt Gray?"
Gray: "Yes sir."
Judge: "My name is Currie Mingledorff. I'm assigned to preside over this morning's proceedings. Mr. Gray, I do need to inquire as to whether you're able to read and write the English language."
Gray: "Yes sir."
2. Wide of people in court
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Judge Currie Mingledorff II, Barrow County Superior Court:
"In essence you are charged with four counts of felony murder as outlined in a state warrants that have been issued against you."
4. Colin Gray, defendant and father of Colt Gray, in court
5. Close-up of woman in courtroom holding a stuffed animal
6. Gray being escorted out of the courtroom
STORYLINE:
The 14-year-old accused of fatally shooting four people at his high school in Georgia made his first court appearance Friday, a day after his father was also arrested for allowing his son to have a weapon.

According to arrest warrants obtained by The Associated Press, Colt Gray is accused of using a semiautomatic assault-style rifle to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Winder, outside Atlanta. Nine people were also hurt in Wednesday’s attack. Authorities have not offered any motive or explained how Gray obtained the gun or got it into the school.

The teen’s father, Colin Gray, 54, was charged Thursday in connection with the shooting, including with counts of involuntary manslaughter and second-degree murder, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey. The father also made an initial court appearance Friday.

Colt Gray was charged as an adult with four counts of murder in the deaths of Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53.

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